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January 9 is the ninth day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 356 days remaining until the end of the year (357 in leap years).

Events

• 475 – Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople.

(bday for matt) *1349 – The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing Black Death, is rounded up and incinerated.

• 1431 – Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, France, the seat of the English occupation government.
• 1760 – Afghans defeat Marathas in the Battle of Barari Ghat.
• 1768 – In London, Philip Astley stages the first modern circus.
• 1788 – Connecticut becomes the fifth state to be admitted to the United States.
• 1793 – Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first person to fly in a balloon in the United States.
• 1799 – British Prime Minister William Pitt introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon.
• 1806 – Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred in St Paul's Cathedral.
• 1816 – Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for miners at Hebburn Colliery.
• 1822 – The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese king João VI, starting the Brazilian independence process.
• 1839 – The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
• 1857 – The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
• 1858 – Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
• 1861 – American Civil War: The "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston, South Carolina. It is considered by some historians to be the "First Shots of the American Civil War".
• 1861 – Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
• 1863 – American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman occurs in Arkansas.
• 1878 – Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
• 1880 – The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.
• 1894 – New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington, Massachusetts.
• 1903 – Hallam Tennyson, 2nd Baron Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
• 1905 – According to the Julian Calendar which is used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Tsarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.
• 1914 – Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc., the first historically black intercollegiate Greek-letter fraternity to be officially recognized at Howard University is founded.
• 1916 – World War I: The Battle of Gallipoli concludes with an Ottoman Empire victory when the last Allied forces are evacuated from the peninsula.
• 1917 – World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
• 1918 – Battle of Bear Valley: The last battle of the American Indian Wars.
• 1923 – Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
• 1941 – World War II: First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
• 1941 – World War II: The Greek Triton (S.112) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
• 1945 – World War II: The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
• 1947 – Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia, is last seen alive.
• 1951 – The United Nations headquarters officially opens in New York City.
• 1964 – Martyrs' Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag on the U.S.-controlled Panama Canal Zone, leading to fighting between U.S. military and Panamanian civilians.
• 2005 – Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement rebel group in Naivasha, Kenya.
• 2005 – Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.

Births

• 1475 – Crinitus, Florentine humanist (d. 1507)
• 1554 – Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623)
• 1571 – Charles Bonaventure de Longueval, Count of Bucquoy, soldier in Habsburg service (d. 1621)
• 1589 – Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet (d. 1638)
• 1624 – Empress Meishō (d. 1696)
• 1685 – Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist (d. 1766)
• 1728 – Thomas Warton, English poet (d. 1790)
• 1745 – Caleb Strong, 6th and 10th Governor of Massachusetts (d. 1819)
• 1773 – Cassandra Austen, English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen (d. 1845)
• 1790 – Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (d. 1855)
• 1811 – Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856)
• 1819 – James Francis, Premier of Victoria (d. 1884)
• 1823 – Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (d. 1908)
• 1829 – Thomas William Robertson, English playwright (d. 1871)
• 1829 – Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer (d. 1857)
• 1832 – Félix-Gabriel Marchand, journalist, author and politician, Premier of Quebec (d. 1900)
• 1839 – John Knowles Paine, U.S. composer (d. 1906)
• 1848 – Princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926)
• 1849 – John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (d. 1935)
• 1854 – Jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)
• 1856 – Anton Aškerc, Slovenian priest and poet (d. 1912)
• 1859 – Carrie Chapman Catt, American suffragist leader (d. 1947)
• 1864 – Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926)
• 1868 – S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939)
• 1870 – Joseph B Strauss, American civil engineer (d. 1938)
• 1873 – Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet (d. 1934)
• 1875 – Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (d. 1942)
• 1879 – John Broadus Watson, American psychologist (d. 1958)
• 1881 – Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and critic (d. 1938)
• 1881 – Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)
• 1881 – Giovanni Papini, Italian writer (d. 1956)
• 1886 – Lloyd Loar, Acoustical engineer and inventor of the Gibson F-5 mandolin (d. 1943)
• 1890 – Karel Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1938)
• 1890 – Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist (d. 1935)
• 1892 – Eva Bowring, American politician (d. 1985)
• 1896 – Warwick Braithwaite, New Zealand-born British conductor (d. 1971)
• 1897 – Karl Löwith, German philosopher (d. 1973)
• 1898 – Vilma Bánky, Hungarian actress (d. 1991)
• 1898 – Gracie Fields, English music hall performer (d. 1979)
• 1898 – Wally Baker, American supercentenarian (d. 2009)
• 1900 – Richard Halliburton, American adventurer (presumed dead 1939)
• 1900 – Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (d. 1961)
• 1901 – Chic Young, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
• 1902 – Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997)
• 1902 – Saint Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish Catholic priest and founder of Opus Dei (d. 1975)
• 1903 – Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator (d. 1969)
• 1908 – Simone de Beauvoir, French author (d. 1986)
• 1909 – Herva Nelli, Italian-born soprano (d. 1994)
• 1909 – Anthony Mamo, Malta's 1st President (d. 2008)
• 1909 – Patrick Peyton, Irish Roman Catholic prelate (d. 1992)
• 1909 – John Richard Simplot, American entrepreneur (d. 2008)
• 1912 – Ralph Tubbs, British architect (d. 1996)
• 1913 – Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
• 1914 – Kenny (Klook) Clarke, American jazz drummer and composer (d. 1985)
• 1915 – Anita Louise, U.S. actress (d. 1970)
• 1915 – Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (d. 1982)
• 1916 – Vic Mizzy, American orchestra leader (d. 2009)
• 1916 – Peter Twinn, English World War II code-breaker (d. 2004)
• 1920 – Chan Canasta, Polish-British magician (d. 1999)
• 1920 – Clive Dunn, British actor
• 1920 – Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar (d. 1998)
• 1921 – Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)
• 1922 – Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel laureate
• 1922 – Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
• 1924 – Sergei Parajanov, Armenian film director (d. 1990)
• 1925 – Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989)
• 1926 – Giannis Christou, Greek composer (d. 1970)
• 1926 – Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 2002)
• 1928 – Judith Krantz, American author
• 1928 – Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (d. 1994)
• 1929 – Brian Friel, Irish dramatist
• 1929 – Heiner Muller, German dramatist (d. 1995)
• 1929 – Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
• 1931 – Algis Budrys, American author (d. 2008)
• 1933 – Robert Garcia, American politician
• 1933 – Wilbur Smith, Zambian-British novelist
• 1934 – Bart Starr, American football player
• 1935 – Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1935 – Dick Enberg, American sportscaster
• 1935 – Earl G. Graves, Sr., African-American publisher
• 1935 – Brian Harradine, Australian independent Senator
• 1936 – Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer
• 1939 – Susannah York, British actress
• 1940 – Jimmy Boyd, American actor and singer (d. 2009)
• 1940 – Barbara Buczek, Polish composer (d. 1993)
• 1940 – Al Downing, American singer (d. 2005)
• 1940 – Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician
• 1941 – Joan Baez, American singer and activist
• 1941 – Gilles Vaillancourt, Quebec politician
• 1942 – K Callan, American actress
• 1942 – Lee Kun-hee, Korean industrialist, chairman of Samsung
• 1942 – Judy Malloy, American hypertext fiction pioneer and artist
• 1943 – Robert Drewe, Australian author
• 1943 – Elmer MacFadyen, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
• 1943 – Freddie Starr, English comedian and singer
• 1943 – Scott Walker, American singer
• 1944 – Ian Hornak, American painter, draughtsman and sculptor (d. 2002)
• 1944 – Jimmy Page, British musician and producer (Led Zeppelin)
• 1945 – John Doman, American actor
• 1947 – Ronnie Landfield, American artist
• 1948 – Bill Cowsill, American singer (The Cowsills) (d. 2006)
• 1948 – Cassie Gaines, backup Singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
• 1950 – David Johansen, American singer
• 1950 – Rio Reiser, German singer (d. 1996)
• 1951 – M.L. Carr, basketball player and coach
• 1951 – Crystal Gayle, American singer
• 1952 – Hugh Bayley, British politician
• 1952 – Michael Capuano, American politician
• 1953 – Morris Gleitzman, British-Australian children's author
• 1955 – Michiko Kakutani, American literary critic
• 1955 – J. K. Simmons, American actor
• 1956 – Kimberly Beck, American actress
• 1956 – Imelda Staunton, British actress
• 1956 – Mike Walczewski, American public address announcer at Madison Square Garden
• 1957 – Bibie, Ghanaian singer
• 1957 – Phil Lewis, American singer (L.A. Guns)
• 1958 – Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
• 1958 – Stephen Neale, British philosopher
• 1959 – Mark Martin, American race car driver
• 1959 – Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• 1959 – Cristi Minculescu, Romanian musician
• 1959 – Otis Nixon, American baseball player
• 1961 – Oliver Goldstick, American screenwriter
• 1963 – Michael Everson, expert in writing systems and Unicode
• 1965 – Darren Bennett, Australian-born American football player
• 1965 – Muggsy Bogues, American basketball player
• 1965 – Iain Dowie, English football manager
• 1965 – Eric Erlandson, American musician
• 1965 – Haddaway, Trinidadian singer
• 1965 – Joely Richardson, British actress
• 1966 – Jan Johansen, Swedish singer
• 1967 – Carl Bell, American musician
• 1967 – Claudio Caniggia, Argentinian footballer
• 1967 – Steve Harwell, American singer and musician (Smash Mouth)
• 1967 – Dave Matthews, South African singer and musician
• 1967 – Gary Teichmann, South African rugby player
• 1968 – Jimmy Adams, West Indian cricketer
• 1968 – Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
• 1968 – Catalina Saavedra, Chilean actress
• 1968 – Al Schnier, American rock guitarist (moe.)
• 1970 – Lara Fabian, Belgian singer
• 1970 – Alex Staropoli, Italian keyboardist (Rhapsody Of Fire)
• 1970 – Mia X, American rapper
• 1971 – Daniel Dumile, American hip hop artist
• 1971 – Angie Martinez, American rapper and radio talk host
• 1971 – Yusuke Naora, Japanese game art director
• 1971 – Hal Niedzviecki, Canadian author
• 1971 – Scott Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1972 – Sarah Beeny, British TV personality
• 1972 – Jay Powell, baseball player
• 1973 – Angela Bettis, American actress
• 1973 – Sean Paul, Jamaican ragga and hip hop musician
• 1974 – Farhan Akhtar, Indian Bollywood director, actor, producer, singer.
• 1975 – Kiko Calero, Puerto Rican baseball player
• 1976 – Radek Bonk, Czech ice hockey player
• 1976 – Todd Grisham, American professional wrestling interviewer
• 1977 – Beth Troutman, American production assistant
• 1978 – Chad Ocho Cinco, American football player
• 1978 – Mathieu Garon, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 – Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer
• 1978 – AJ McLean, American singer (Backstreet Boys)
• 1978 – Maggie Rizer, American model and AIDS activist
• 1979 – Athanassios Prittas, Greek footballer
• 1979 – Tomiko Van, Japanese singer
• 1980 – Sergio García, Spanish golfer
• 1981 – Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish footballer
• 1982 – Timmy Bowers, American basketball player
• 1983 – Sharad Malhotra, Indian Television Actor
• 1987 – Sam Bird, English racing driver
• 1987 – Mao Inoue, Japanese actress
• 1987 – Lucas Pezzini Leiva, Brazilian footballer
• 1987 – Paolo Nutini, Scottish singer/songwriter
• 1987 – Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (d. 2006)
• 1989 – Michael Beasley, American basketball player
• 1989 – Nina Dobrev, Bulgarian actress
• 1989 – Michaella Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
• 1989 – Chris Sandow, Australian Rugby League player
• 1990 – Melissa Ricks, Filipina actress

Deaths

• 1150 – Emperor Xizong of Jin is murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a Coup d'état. (b. 1119)
• 1282 – Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd ibn Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (b. 1204)
• 1283 – Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236)
• 1499 – Johann Cicero, elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455)
• 1514 – Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (b. 1477)
• 1543 – Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)
• 1562 – Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514)
• 1571 – Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
• 1598 – Jasper Heywood, English translator (b. 1553)
• 1677 – Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (b. 1603)
• 1757 – Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657)
• 1757 – Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (b. 1688)
• 1766 – Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705)
• 1799 – Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
• 1800 – Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
• 1805 – Noble Wimberly Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
• 1843 – William Hedley, British industrial engineer (b. 1773)
• 1848 – Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)
• 1858 – Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798)
• 1873 – Emperor Napoleon III of France (b. 1808)
• 1876 – Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
• 1877 – Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799)
• 1878 – King Victor Emmanuel II of Italy (b. 1820)
• 1895 – Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (b. 1812)
• 1901 – Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830)
• 1908 – Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832)
• 1908 – Abraham Goldfaden, Russian-born actor (b. 1840)
• 1911 – Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (b. 1853)
• 1911 – Edvard Rusjan, Slovene flight pioneer (b. 1886)
• 1918 – Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)
• 1923 – Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888)
• 1927 – Houston Stewart Chamberlain, British pro-Aryan anti-semitic writer, son-in-law of Richard Wagner (b. 1855)
• 1931 – Wayne Munn, wrestler (b. 1896)
• 1936 – John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1939 – Johann Strauss III, Austrian conductor (b. 1866)
• 1945 – Jüri Uluots, Estonian Prime Minister (b. 1890)
• 1946 – Countee Cullen, American poet (b. 1903)
• 1946 – Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (b. 1874)
• 1947 – Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (b. 1893)
• 1960 – Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (b. 1880)
• 1961 – Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1971 – Giannis Christou, Greek composer (b. 1926)
• 1971 – Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
• 1972 – Ted Shawn, American dancer (b. 1891)
• 1975 – Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897)
• 1975 – Pyotr Novikov, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
• 1979 – Pier Luigi Nervi, Italian engineer and architect (b. 1891)
• 1981 – Kazimierz Serocki, Polish composer (b. 1922)
• 1984 – Wolfgang Staudte, German director (b. 1906)
• 1985 – Robert Mayer, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879)
• 1987 – Marion Hutton, American singer (b. 1919)
• 1987 – Arthur Lake, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1989 – Bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898)
• 1990 – Sir Edward McTiernan, Australian jurist, lawyer and politician (b. 1892)
• 1990 – Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907)
• 1992 – Steve Brodie, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1992 – Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910)
• 1993 – Sir Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
• 1994 – Johnny Temple, baseball player (b. 1927)
• 1995 – Peter Cook, British actor and comedian (b. 1937)
• 1995 – Souphanouvong, President of Laos (b. 1909)
• 1997 – Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)
• 1997 – Jesse White, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1998 – Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1918)
• 1998 – Charito Solis, Filipino actress (b. 1935)
• 2000 – Ted Jones, Hydroplane builder/designer (b. 1908)
• 2000 – Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909)
• 2001 – Maurice Prather, American photographer (b. 1926)
• 2003 – Will McDonough, American sports journalist (b. 1935)
• 2004 – Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909)
• 2005 – Gonzalo Gavira, Mexican film sound technician (b. 1925)
• 2006 – Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
• 2006 – Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (b. 1937)
• 2007 – Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (b. 1977)
• 2007 – Jean-Pierre Vernant, French structuralist historian and anthropologist (b. 1914)
• 2008 – Johnny Grant, American radio personality, television producer (b. 1923)
• 2008 – Liam Quinn, Provisional IRA member (b. 1949)
• 2008 – Mehran Ghassemi, Iranian journalist (b. 1977)
• 2008 – Sir John Harvey-Jones, chairman of ICI from 1982 to 1987 (b. 1924).
• 2009 – T. Llew Jones, Welsh author (b. 1915)
• 2009 – Rob Gauntlett, English adventurer, explorer and motivational speaker (b. 1987)
• 2010 – Vimcy, Sports writer (b. 1925)

Holidays and observances

• Martyrs' Day (Panama) commemorates the 1964 riots over sovereignty of the Panama Canal Zone
• Black Nazarene feast in the Quiapo district, Manila, Philippines
• January 9 (Eastern Orthodox liturgics)
• Republic Day in Republika Srpska, Bosnia and Herzegovina
• Adrian of Canterbury
• Metropolitan Philip II of Moscow
• Theophan the Recluse

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day
• On This Day in Canada

From Wikiquote

Quotes of the day from previous years:

2004

Shared pain is lessened; shared joy, increased — thus do we refute entropy. ~ Spider Robinson

• selected by Kalki

2005

Each time a person stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other from a million different centers of energy and daring, these ripples build a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance. ~ Robert F. Kennedy

• selected by Kalki

2006

Life will not perish! It will begin anew with love; it will start out naked and tiny; it will take root in the wilderness, and to it all that we did and built will mean nothing — our towns and factories, our art, our ideas will all mean nothing, and yet life will not perish! Only we have perished. Our houses and machines will be in ruins, our systems will collapse, and the names of our great will fall away like dry leaves. Only you, love, will blossom on this rubbish heap and commit the seed of life to the winds. ~ Karel Čapek (born 9 January 1890)

• selected by Kalki

2007

I think it is possible, and that is the most dramatic element in modern civilization, that a human truth is opposed to another human truth no less human, ideal against ideal, positive worth against worth no less positive, instead of the struggle being as we are so often told, one between noble truth and vile selfish error. ~ Karel Čapek (date of birth)

• proposed by Kalki

2008

One's life has value so long as one attributes value to the life of others, by means of love, friendship, indignation and compassion. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

• proposed by Kalki

2009

I tore myself away from the safe comfort of certainties through my love for truth — and truth rewarded me. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

• proposed by Kalki

2010 

Rank or add further suggestions…

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3 : Very Good - strong desire to see it used.

2 : Good - some desire to see it used.

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0 : Not acceptable - not appropriate for use as a quote of the day.

Suggestions

I am incapable of conceiving infinity, and yet I do not accept finity. I want this adventure that is the context of my life to go on without end. ~ Simone de Beauvoir (born January 9, 1908)

• 3 InvisibleSun 22:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
• 4 Kalki (talk · contributions) 18:58, 5 January 2010 (UTC) * 3 Kalki 14:41, 19 January 2007 (UTC)
• 2 Zarbon 18:01, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

That's what I consider true generosity. You give your all, and yet you always feel as if it costs you nothing. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

• 3 InvisibleSun 22:10, 8 January 2007 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 14:41, 19 January 2007 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.
• 1 Zarbon 18:01, 22 April 2008 (UTC)

The easiest kind of relationship for me is with ten thousand people. The hardest is with one. ~ Joan Baez

• 2 Zarbon 06:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 14:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

You can't decide how you're going to die. Or when. What you can decide is how you're going to live now. ~ Joan Baez

• 2 Zarbon 06:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
• 3 Kalki 14:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC)

Any nation that decides the only way to achieve peace is through peaceful means is a nation that will soon be a piece of another nation. ~ Richard Nixon

• 4 Zarbon 06:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 14:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:20, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

We shall support vigorously the principle that no country has the right to impose its will or rule on another by force. ~ Richard Nixon

• 3 Zarbon 06:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 14:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
• 2 InvisibleSun 22:20, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

Just as we respect the right of each nation to determine its own future, we also recognize the responsibility of each nation to secure its own future. ~ Richard Nixon

• 3 Zarbon 06:34, 13 December 2008 (UTC)
• 2 Kalki 14:44, 6 January 2009 (UTC)
• 3 InvisibleSun 22:20, 8 January 2009 (UTC)

All oppression creates a state of war. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Existentialism does not offer to the reader the consolations of an abstract evasion: existentialism proposes no evasion. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

It is not in vain that man nullifies being. Thanks to him, being is disclosed and he desires this disclosure. There is an original type of attachment to being which is not the relationship “wanting to be” but rather “wanting to disclose being.” Now, here there is not failure, but rather success. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

One is not born a genius, one becomes a genius; and the feminine situation has up to the present rendered this becoming practically impossible. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

There is only one good. And that is to act according to the dictates of one's conscience. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Self-knowledge is no guarantee of happiness, but it is on the side of happiness and can supply the courage to fight for it. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Science condemns itself to failure when, yielding to the infatuation of the serious, it aspires to attain being, to contain it, and to possess it; but it finds its truth if it considers itself as a free engagement of thought in the given, aiming, at each discovery, not at fusion with the thing, but at the possibility of new discoveries; what the mind then projects is the concrete accomplishment of its freedom. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC)

Any man who has known real loves, real revolts, real desires, and real will knows quite well that he has no need of any outside guarantee to be sure of his goals; their certitude comes from his own drive. There is a very old saying which goes: “Do what you must, come what may.” That amounts to saying in a different way that the result is not external to the good will which fulfills itself in aiming at it. If it came to be that each man did what he must, existence would be saved in each one without there being any need of dreaming of a paradise where all would be reconciled in death. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC) with a lean toward 4.

It is for man to establish the reign of liberty in the midst of the world of the given. To gain the supreme victory, it is necessary, for one thing, that by and through their natural differentiation men and women unequivocally affirm their brotherhood. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC) with a very strong lean toward 4.

The individual is defined only by his relationship to the world and to other individuals; he exists only by transcending himself, and his freedom can be achieved only through the freedom of others. ~ Simone de Beauvoir

• 3 Kalki (talk · contributions) 19:23, 5 January 2010 (UTC) with a VERY strong lean toward 4.

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Games released on January 9.

From Familypedia

January 9 is the 9th day of the year in the Gregorian calendar. There are 356 days remaining until the end of the year (357 in leap years).

Events

• 475 - Byzantine Emperor Zeno is forced to flee his capital at Constantinople.
• 1349 - The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague, is rounded up and incinerated.
• 1431 - Judges' investigations for the trial of Joan of Arc begin in Rouen, the seat of the English occupation government.
• 1760 - Afghans defeat Marathas in Battle of Barari Ghat.
• 1768 - Philip Astley stages the first modern circus (London).
• 1788 - Connecticut becomes the fifth state to join the United States.
• 1793 - Jean-Pierre Blanchard becomes the first to fly in a balloon in the United States.
• 1799 - British Prime Minister William Pitt introduces income tax to raise funds for the war against Napoleon.
• 1806 - Admiral Horatio Lord Nelson receives a state funeral and is interred at St Paul's Cathedral.
• 1816 - Sir Humphry Davy tests the Davy lamp for Miners at Hebburn Colliery.
• 1822 - The Portuguese prince Pedro I of Brazil decides to stay in Brazil against the orders of the Portuguese king João VI, starting the Brazilian independence process.
• 1839 - The French Academy of Sciences announces the Daguerreotype photography process.
• 1857 - The Fort Tejon earthquake of California occurs, registering an estimated magnitude of 7.9.
• 1858 - Anson Jones, the last President of the Republic of Texas, commits suicide.
• 1861 - American Civil War: The "Star of the West" incident occurs near Charleston. It is considered by some historians to be the "First Shots of the American Civil War.")
• 1861 - Mississippi becomes the second state to secede from the Union before the outbreak of the American Civil War.
• 1863 - The first section of the London Underground Railway opens -- between Paddington and Farringdon Street.
• 1863 - American Civil War: the Battle of Fort Hindman occurs in Arkansas.
• 1878 - Umberto I becomes King of Italy.
• 1880 - The Great Gale of 1880 devastates parts of Oregon and Washington with high wind and heavy snow.
• 1882 - Oscar Wilde gives his first lecture on "The English Renaissance of Art" in New York.
• 1894 - New England Telephone and Telegraph installs the first battery-operated telephone switchboard in Lexington.
• 1900 - S.S. Lazio is founded in Rome, Italy.
• 1903 - Hallam Tennyson, son of the famous poet Alfred Tennyson, becomes the second Governor-General of Australia.
• 1905 - According to the Julian Calendar which was used at the time, Russian workers stage a march on the Winter Palace that ends in the massacre by Tsarist troops known as Bloody Sunday, setting off the Russian Revolution of 1905.
• 1914 - Phi Beta Sigma Fraternity Inc. was founded on the campus of Howard University.
• 1916 - The Ottoman Empire prevails in the Battle of Çanakkale, as the last British troops are evacuated.
• 1917 - World War I: the Battle of Rafa occurs near the Egyptian border with Palestine.
• 1923 - Juan de la Cierva makes the first autogyro flight.
• 1941 - First flight of the Avro Lancaster.
• 1941 - World War II: The Greek Triton (S.112) sinks the Italian submarine Neghelli in Otranto.
• 1945 - The United States invades Luzon in the Philippines.
• 1947 - Elizabeth "Betty" Short, the Black Dahlia last seen alive.
• 1951 - United Nations headquarters officially opens in New York City.
• 1964 - Martyrs' Day: Several Panamanian youths try to raise the Panamanian flag on the US-controlled Panama Canal Zone,leading to fighting between US military and Panamanian civilians.
• 1968 - The first and last time to date snow fell in Mexico City along with days 10 and 11.
• 1972 - RMS Queen Elizabeth is destroyed by fire in Victoria Harbour, Hong Kong.
• 1986 - After losing a patent battle with Polaroid, Kodak leaves the instant camera business.
• 1991 - The Soviets storm Vilnius to stop Lithuanian independence.
• 1997 - A Comair Embraer 120 crashes during approach into Detroit Metro Airport, killing 29 people.
• 2001 - Shenzhou 2, an unmanned Chinese spacecraft, was launched.
• 2002 - The United States Department of Justice announces it is going to pursue a criminal investigation of Enron.
• 2003 - Air Midwest Flight 5481 crashes into hangar on take off in Charlotte, NC. All 19 passengers and 2 crew dead.
• 2005 - The signing of the Comprehensive Peace Agreement, commonly known as the Naivasha Agreement between the Government of Sudan and the Sudan People's Liberation Movement rebel group in Naivasha, Kenya
• 2005 - Elections are held to replace Yasser Arafat as head of the Palestine Liberation Organization. He is succeeded by Rawhi Fattouh.
• 2006 - The Phantom of the Opera surpasses the record set by Cats for the title of longest running show on Broadway.
• 2007 - An AerianTur-M Antonov An-26 crashes in Balad, Iraq. The Islamic Army in Iraq claims to have shot it down.

Births

• 1554 - Pope Gregory XV (d. 1623)
• 1571 - Karel Bonaventura Buquoy, French soldier (d. 1621)
• 1589 - Ivan Gundulic, Croatian poet (d. 1638)
• 1624 - Empress Meishō (d. 1696)
• 1685 - Tiberius Hemsterhuis, Dutch philologist (d. 1766)
• 1728 - Thomas Warton, English poet (d. 1790)
• 1773 - Cassandra Austen, English watercolorist and sister of Jane Austen (d. 1845)
• 1790 - Per Daniel Amadeus Atterbom, Swedish poet (d. 1855)
• 1811 - Gilbert Abbott à Beckett, English writer (d. 1856)
• 1823 - Johannes Friedrich August von Esmarch, German surgeon (d. 1908)
• 1829 - Thomas William Robertson, English playwright (d. 1871)
• 1829 - Adolf von Schlagintweit, German explorer (d. 1857)
• 1832 - Félix-Gabriel Marchand, journalist, author and politician, Premier of Quebec (d. 1900)
• 1848 - Princess Frederica of Hanover (d. 1926)
• 1849 - John Hartley, English tennis player, double winner of Wimbledon (d. 1935)
• 1854 - Jennie Jerome, American society beauty and mother of Winston Churchill (d. 1921)
• 1856 - Anton Aškerc, Slovenian priest and poet (d. 1912)
• 1864 - Vladimir Steklov, Russian mathematician (d. 1926)
• 1868 - S. P. L. Sørensen, Danish chemist (d. 1939)
• 1870 - Joseph B Strauss, American civil engineer (d. 1938)
• 1873 - Hayyim Nahman Bialik, Hebrew poet (d. 1934)
• 1875 - Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney, American socialite (d. 1942)
• 1879 - John Broadus Watson, American psychologist (d. 1958)
• 1881 - Lascelles Abercrombie, British poet and critic (d. 1938)
• 1881 - Edouard Beaupré, horse lifter (d. 1904)
• 1881 - Giovanni Papini, Italian writer (d. 1956)
• 1890 - Karel Čapek, Czech writer (d. 1938)
• 1890 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist (d. 1935)
• 1892 - Eva Bowring, American politician (d. 1985)
• 1897 - Karl Löwith, German philosopher (d. 1973)
• 1898 - Vilma Bánky, Hungarian actress (d. 1991)
• 1898 - Gracie Fields, English vaudeville performer (d. 1979)
• 1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin, Russian composer (d. 1977)
• 1900 - Maria of Romania, Queen Consort of Yugoslavia (d. 1961)
• 1901 - Chic Young, American cartoonist (d. 1973)
• 1902 - Rudolph Bing, Austrian-born opera manager (d. 1997)
• 1902 - Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish religious author (d. 1975)
• 1903 - Hem Vejakorn, Thai illustrator (d. 1969)
• 1904 - George Balanchine, Russian dancer/choreographer (d. 1983)
• 1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, French author (d. 1986)
• 1909 - Herva Nelli, Italian-born soprano (d. 1994)
• 1911 - Gypsy Rose Lee, burlesque performer (d. 1970)
• 1912 - Ralph Tubbs, British architect (d. 1996)
• 1913 - Richard Nixon, 37th President of the United States (d. 1994)
• 1914 - Kenny (Klook) Clarke, American jazz drummer and composer (d. 1985)
• 1915 - Fernando Lamas, Argentine actor (d. 1982)
• 1916 - Vic Mizzy, American orchestra leader
• 1916 - Peter Twinn, English World War II code-breaker (d. 2004)
• 1920 - Clive Dunn, British actor
• 1920 - Hakim Mohammed Said, Pakistani scholar
• 1921 - Lister Sinclair, Canadian broadcaster and playwright (d. 2006)
• 1922 - Har Gobind Khorana, Nobel laureate
• 1922 - Ahmed Sékou Touré, President of Guinea (d. 1984)
• 1924 - Sergei Parajanov, Armenian film director (d. 1990)
• 1925 - Lee Van Cleef, American actor (d. 1989)
• 1926 - Jean-Pierre Côté, Canadian politician, Lieutenant governor of Quebec (d. 2002)
• 1926 - Giannis Christou, Greek composer (d. 1970)
• 1928 - Judith Krantz, American author
• 1928 - Domenico Modugno, Italian singer and songwriter (d. 1994)
• 1929 - Heiner Muller, German dramatist (d. 1995)
• 1929 - Brian Friel, Irish dramatist
• 1929 - Dorothea Puente, American serial killer
• 1931 - Algis Budrys, American author
• 1933 - Robert Garcia, American politician
• 1934 - Bart Starr, American football player
• 1935 - Earl G. Graves, Sr., African-American Publisher
• 1935 - Bob Denver, American actor (d. 2005)
• 1935 - Dick Enberg, American sportscaster
• 1936 - Anne Rivers Siddons, American writer
• 1939 - Susannah York, British actress
• 1940 - Jimmy Boyd, American actor and singer
• 1940 - Barbara Buczek, Polish composer (d. 1993)
• 1940 - Ruth Dreifuss, Swiss politician
• 1941 - Joan Baez, American singer and activist
• 1941 - Gilles Vaillancourt, Quebec politician
• 1942 - Lee Kun-hee, Korean industrialist, chairman of samsung
• 1942 - K Callan, American actress
• 1943 - Freddie Starr, English comedian and singer
• 1943 - Elmer MacFadyen, Canadian politician (d. 2007)
• 1944 - Jimmy Page, English guitarist (Led Zeppelin)
• 1947 - Ronnie Landfield, American artist
• 1948 - Bill Cowsill, American singer (The Cowsills) (d. 2006)
• 1948 - Cassie Gaines Backup Singer (Lynyrd Skynyrd) (d. 1977)
• 1950 - David Johansen American singer
• 1950 - Rio Reiser, German singer (d. 1996)
• 1951 - Crystal Gayle, American singer
• 1951 - M.L. Carr, basketball player and coach
• 1952 - Hugh Bayley, British politician
• 1955 - J. K. Simmons, American actor
• 1956 - Kimberly Beck, American actress
• 1956 - Imelda Staunton, British actress
• 1956 - Mike Walczewski, American Public Address Announcer at Madison Square Garden
• 1957 - Phil Lewis, lead singer of L.A. Guns
• 1958 - Mehmet Ali Ağca, Turkish attempted assassin of Pope John Paul II
• 1958 - Stephen Neale, British philosopher
• 1959 - Mark Martin, American race car driver
• 1959 - Rigoberta Menchú, Nobel Peace Prize laureate
• 1959 - Cristi Minculescu, Romanian musician
• 1959 - Otis Nixon, American baseball player
• 1961 - Oliver Goldstick, American screenwriter
• 1963 - Michael Everson, expert in writing systems and Unicode
• 1965 - Eric Erlandson, American musician
• 1965 - Joely Richardson, British actress
• 1965 - Darren Bennett, Australian-born American football player
• 1965 - Muggsy Bogues, American basketball player
• 1965 - Iain Dowie, English football manager
• 1967 - Claudio Caniggia, Argentinian footballer
• 1967 - Steven Harwell, American singer and musician (Smash Mouth)
• 1967 - Dave Matthews, South African singer and musician
• 1967 - Carl Bell, American musician
• 1968 - Jimmy Adams, West Indian cricketer
• 1968 - Joey Lauren Adams, American actress
• 1968 - Al Schnier, American rock guitarist
• 1970 - Alex Staropoli, Italian keyboardist
• 1970 - Lara Fabian, Belgian singer
• 1971 - Daniel Dumile, American hip hop artist
• 1971 - Scott Thornton, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1971 - Yusuke Naora, Japanese game art director
• 1972 - Sarah Beeny, British TV personality
• 1972 - Jay Powell, baseball player
• 1975 - Angela Bettis, American actress
• 1975 - Kimberley Ann Scott Mathers, former wife of Eminem
• 1975 - Kiko Calero, baseball player
• 1976 - Todd Grisham, American professional wrestling interviewer
• 1976 - Radek Bonk, Czechoslovakian ice hockey player
• 1978 - Mathieu Garon, Canadian ice hockey player
• 1978 - Gennaro Gattuso, Italian footballer
• 1978 - Chad Johnson, American football player
• 1978 - AJ McLean, American singer
• 1978 - Maggie Rizer, American model and AIDS activist
• 1979 - Tomiko Van, Japanese singer
• 1980 - Sergio García, Spanish golfer
• 1981 - Euzebiusz Smolarek, Polish footballer
• 1982 - Kate Middleton, girlfriend of Prince William of England
• 1987 - Paolo Nutini, British singer/songwriter
• 1987 - Pablo Santos, Mexican actor (d. 2006)
• 1987 - Sam Bird, British racing driver
• 1989 - Michaella Krajicek, Dutch tennis player
• 1997 - Lauryn McClain, American actress and singer

Deaths

• 1150 - Emperor Xizong of Jin was murdered by Prince Hailing of Jin in a Coup d'état.
• 1282 - Abû 'Uthmân Sa'îd Hakam al Qurashi, ruler of Minorca (b. 1204)
• 1283 - Wen Tianxiang, Prime Minister of China (executed) (b. 1236)
• 1499 - Johann Cicero, elector of Brandenburg (b. 1455)
• 1514 - Anna, Duchess of Brittany, queen of Charles VIII of France (b. 1477)
• 1543 - Guillaume du Bellay, French diplomat and general (b. 1491)
• 1562 - Amago Haruhisa, Japanese warlord (b. 1514)
• 1571 - Nicolas Durand de Villegaignon, French naval officer (b. 1510)
• 1598 - Jasper Heywood, English translator (b. 1553)
• 1677 - Aernout van der Neer, Dutch painter (b. 1603)
• 1757 - Bernard le Bovier de Fontenelle, French scientist and man of letters (b. 1657)
• 1757 - Louis Bertrand Castel, French mathematician (b. 1688)
• 1766 - Thomas Birch, British historian (b. 1705)
• 1799 - Maria Gaetana Agnesi, Italian scientist (b. 1718)
• 1800 - Jean Étienne Championnet, French general (b. 1762)
• 1805 - Noble Jones, American Continental Congressman (b. 1723)
• 1848 - Caroline Herschel, German-born astronomer (b. 1750)
• 1858 - Anson Jones, 5th and last President of Texas (suicide) (b. 1798)
• 1873 - Napoleon III, Emperor of France (b. 1808)
• 1876 - Samuel Gridley Howe, American abolitionist (b. 1801)
• 1877 - Alexander Brullov, Russia painter (b. 1799)
• 1878 - Victor Emmanuel II, King of Italy (b. 1820)
• 1895 - Aaron Lufkin Dennison, American watch manufacturer (b. 1812)
• 1901 - Richard Copley Christie, English scholar (b. 1830)
• 1908 - Wilhelm Busch, German painter (b. 1832)
• 1908 - Abraham Goldfaden, Russian-born actor (b. 1840)
• 1911 - Edwin Arthur Jones, American composer (b. 1853)
• 1911 - Edvard Rusjan, Slovene flight pioneer (b. 1886)
• 1918 - Émile Reynaud, French scientist (b. 1844)
• 1923 - Katherine Mansfield, New Zealand writer (b. 1888)
• 1931 - Wayne Munn, wrestler (b. 1896)
• 1936 - John Gilbert, American actor (b. 1899)
• 1939 - Johann Strauss III, Austrian conductor (b. 1866)
• 1939 - Johnny Gruelle, American creator of Raggedy Ann (b. 1880)
• 1946 - Dimitrios Golemis, Greek athlete (b. 1874)
• 1946 - Countee Cullen, American poet (b. 1903)
• 1947 - Karl Mannheim, German sociologist (b. 1893)
• 1960 - Elsie J. Oxenham, British children's author (b. 1880)
• 1961 - Emily Greene Balch, American writer, Nobel Peace Prize laureate (b. 1867)
• 1971 - Giannis Christou, Greek composer (b. 1926)
• 1971 - Elmer Flick, baseball player (b. 1876)
• 1972 - Ted Shawn, American dancer (b. 1891)
• 1975 - Pierre Fresnay, French actor (b. 1897)
• 1975 - Pyotr Sergeyevich Novikov, Russian mathematician (b. 1901)
• 1981 - Kazimierz Serocki, Polish composer (b. 1922)
• 1984 - Wolfgang Staudte, German director (b. 1906)
• 1985 - Robert Mayer, British businessman and philanthropist (b. 1879)
• 1987 - Marion Hutton, American singer (b. 1919)
• 1987 - Arthur Lake, American actor (b. 1905)
• 1989 - Bill Terry, baseball player (b. 1898)
• 1990 - Spud Chandler, baseball player (b. 1907)
• 1992 - Bill Naughton, British playwright (b. 1910)
• 1992 - Steve Brodie, American actor (b. 1919)
• 1993 - Sir Paul Hasluck, Governor-General of Australia (b. 1905)
• 1994 - Johnny Temple, baseball player (b. 1927)
• 1995 - Peter Cook, British actor and comedian (b. 1937)
• 1995 - Souphanouvong, President of Laos (b. 1909)
• 1997 - Edward Osobka-Morawski, Prime Minister of Poland (b. 1909)
• 1997 - Jesse White, American actor (b. 1917)
• 1998 - Kenichi Fukui, Japanese chemist, Nobel Prize in Chemistry laureate (b. 1918)
• 2000 - Nigel Tranter, Scottish historian and author (b. 1909)
• 2001 - Maurice Prather, American photographer (b. 1926)
• 2003 - Will McDonough, American sports journalist (b. 1935)
• 2004 - Norberto Bobbio, Italian philosopher (b. 1909)
• 2005 - Gonzalo Gavira, Mexican film sound technician (b. 1925)
• 2006 - Andy Caldecott, Australian motorcycle racer (b. 1964)
• 2006 - Mikk Mikiver, Estonian actor, director (b. 1937)
• 2007 - Elmer Symons, South African motorcycle racer (b. 1977)

Holidays and observances

• Martyrs' Day (Panama) commemorates the 1964 riots over sovereignty of the Panama Canal Zone
• Black Nazarene feast in the Quiapo district, Manila, Philippines
• Balloon Ascension Day [1]
• January 9

Religious feasts

• Adrian of Canterbury^[1]
• Metropolitan Philip II of Moscow ^[1]
• Theophan the Recluse

References

1. ^ ^{a b} *Attwater, Donald and Catherine Rachel John. The Penguin Dictionary of Saints. 3rd edition. New York: Penguin Books, 1993. ISBN 0-140-51312-4.

External links

• BBC: On This Day
• The New York Times: On This Day

• On This Day in Canada